LewRockwell.com
ANTI-STATE•ANTI-WAR•PRO-MARKET
Venice Votes to Split from Italy as 89% of the City's Residents Opt to Form a New Independent State
By Hannah Roberts
Daily Mail
Daily Mail
March 22, 2014
Inspired by Scotland’s separatist ambitions, 89 per cent of the
residents of the lagoon city and its surrounding area, opted to break
away from Italy in an unofficial ballot.
The proposed ‘Repubblica Veneta’ would include the five million inhabitants of the Veneto region and could later expand to include parts of Lombardy, Trentino and Friuli-Venezia Giulia.
The floating city has only been part of Italy for 150 years. The 1000 year–old democratic Serenissima Repubblica di Venezia, was quashed by Napoleon and was subsumed into Italy in 1866.
Wealthy Venetians, under mounting financial pressure in the economic crisis, have rallied in their thousands, after growing tired of supporting Italy’s poor and crime ridden Mezzogiorno south, through high taxation.
Activists have been working closely with the SNP on their joint agendas, even travelling to Scotland alongside Catalonians and Basque separatists to take part in pro independence rallies.
Campaigners say that the Rome government receives around 71 billion euros each year in tax from Venice – some 21 billion euros less than it gets back in investment and services.
Organisers said that 2.36million, 73 per cent, of those eligible to take part voted in the poll, which is not recognised by the Rome government.
The ballot also appointed a committee of ten who immediately declared independence from Italy. Venice may now start withholding taxes from Rome.
The proposed ‘Repubblica Veneta’ would include the five million inhabitants of the Veneto region and could later expand to include parts of Lombardy, Trentino and Friuli-Venezia Giulia.
The floating city has only been part of Italy for 150 years. The 1000 year–old democratic Serenissima Repubblica di Venezia, was quashed by Napoleon and was subsumed into Italy in 1866.
Wealthy Venetians, under mounting financial pressure in the economic crisis, have rallied in their thousands, after growing tired of supporting Italy’s poor and crime ridden Mezzogiorno south, through high taxation.
Activists have been working closely with the SNP on their joint agendas, even travelling to Scotland alongside Catalonians and Basque separatists to take part in pro independence rallies.
Campaigners say that the Rome government receives around 71 billion euros each year in tax from Venice – some 21 billion euros less than it gets back in investment and services.
Organisers said that 2.36million, 73 per cent, of those eligible to take part voted in the poll, which is not recognised by the Rome government.
The ballot also appointed a committee of ten who immediately declared independence from Italy. Venice may now start withholding taxes from Rome.
LRC Blog
- The Neo-Confederates in Crimea and Venice . . .
- Southern Poverty Law Center: Profits of Hate
- How about a War on Hospitals and Physicians instead of a War on Drugs?
- Re: Nancy Pelosi to Receive the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood
- If U.S. Soldiers Were Really Defending Our Freedoms
- BREAKING NEWS!! BREAKING NEWS!!
- Forbidden Questions in the Forbidden City
- Nancy Pelosi to Receive the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood
- Prof. Alan Kuperman’s Strong Critique of NATO’s Libya War
- New Sanctions on Russia — What’s the Endgame?
Podcasts
- Bill Sardi: Defending Health Against the Government
- Lew Rockwell: the NY Times Doesn’t Like Me
- Lew Rockwell: The Truth Shall Make Us Free
- Ralph Weber: Against Fascist Healthcare
- John Denson: My Two Famous Cousins in WWII
No comments:
Post a Comment